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Saudi soldier killed in shelling from Yemen

The National Guard serviceman was killed in the Najran region, in the southwest, said the Saudi-led coalition carrying out air strikes against Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen. The Saudi soldier brings the number of people killed in shelling and skirmishes along the frontier with Yemen to more than 50 since the coalition campaign began on March 26.

Facing epidemic, Cincinnati hospitals test mothers, newborns for drugs

By Mary Wisniewski CINCINNATI (Reuters) – Bubbly and athletic, Heather Padgett, raised in a loving family in the Cincinnati suburbs, would not fit the stereotype of a heroin addict. Until she got clean last August, she was part of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called a heroin epidemic – a 100 percent rise in heroin addiction among Americans between 2002 and 2013. The sharp rise

Myanmar braces for more flooding as international aid flows in

International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.

Myanmar braces for more flooding as international aid flows in

International aid poured into Myanmar on Friday following weeks of heavy monsoon flooding that aid agencies say is set to extend further across the low-lying southern delta region. “We’re very concerned about secondary flooding that is likely going to happen in the delta region (as more water flows downstream),” said Pierre Peron, spokesman for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). The World Food Programme, the U.N.